COLUMBIA, Mo. — This is a game that has plagued the Florida Gators. It was cold. It was early. It was Missouri, a team that had befuddled the Florida Gators the previous two years and four of the last six.
It even started the same way, the slow, weird kind of games that Missouri has ended up beating Florida in the past. It was eerily similar to the last time Josh Hammond was in Memorial Stadium.
Two years ago Jim McElwain had just been fired. The Gators had been blown out by Georgia, fired its head coach and promoted Randy Shannon to head coach.